The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1935, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire PTOBERT W. BENDER GENERAL MANAGER Published x EMPIRE pRI\TI Streets Juneau, A nday by _the nd and Mair at Bntored in the Post Office in Juncau as Second Clasa matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Deilvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. Ry mail ge paid, at the following rates: s gear. in advance, $12.00; six months, In advance, £.67: one month, in advance, $1.86. subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly rotity the Business Office of any failure or-irregularity M the delivery of their papera. Telephone for Editoriai and Business Offices, MEMBER OF ARSOCIATZD PRESS. The Assocrated Press Is exclusively entitled to the e for republication of all news dispatel credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the »oal news published hereln ALATIKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LAR THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION \ GER g THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNFSDAY ]AN 2, 1935. Federal revenue from legalized liquor are al- ready $150,000,000 sh of e tes. Joseph H, Choate, Jr., Direcior of the Feder Alcchol Control Administration, points to the difficulty of coping e output of illicit liquor plants fostered 1t high taxes on legal with the h § 20 YEARS AGO | giryy— ——BIRTHDAY| PFrom The Enpire and encouraged by the pre i The producing capacity of illicit SHIS 15 | € uxmoeoes oot os oo~ 3 T estimated at possibly 500,000,00 ons annually. l,”‘” E;"‘;;'et 93:7"‘:; tca‘:ia‘; el Reduced Government enfor nt staffs cannot b‘x‘;’t‘;dzz M:fvemw £, the Jollois-] make seizures fast h to keep down the enor- JANUARY 2, 1915 ing: ’ ‘ mous bootleg inf 3 Can anything keep it down short of fair compe-| A state of panic reigned in Con- FANGAHY & g | tition from legal liquor relieved of excessive and|Stantinople where the Turkish et | Hatiled ‘taxes? troops had abandoned all idea of Ar "“’w_l It begins to look as if repeal, instead of killing | Maintaining an offensive move- H'E‘: Sll.:?Oh | the bootleg industry, had given it & fresh hold by|Mment and everything pointed to g‘e o;on | reaching too d and greedily for revenue, | COnstantinople being the first of F3my | ¥ the enemy .capitol cities to fall. TRV 1T It might have been better to starve out bootleggers| o " g 9 first. with 1 gal liguor, Then, with a| NGWS came that the Russians|ATTENTION WOMEN OF MODSE better initial n the iilicit ade. ‘and “.thwore invading Hungary with gigan- Regular meeting Thursday night stimulated co n, the Government could have | 1€ forces and the situation wasiat 8 o'clock at Moose Hall. All o “‘..';] n t 3 ¥ grave. members urged to attend. Some authorities think Americans are actually| oo e e GEREEY %‘fifg;r | consun far less lquor than before Pruhlln:)on.‘\,p‘ent' t:e h;i'ds;" % vg:t::dii Bl ) £ = If ths so prohibitive prices may well be the | 4 ) et ]Cmvcvnm'n:}n could increase and | SUCStS Of Mrs. Hodge's mother. Dld pepers Jor Aee e naking repeal drinking less tem- | thing is sure: Congress and State Legisla- have got to study the effect of high liquor sotlegging and on legal consumption. | the World-Telegram has long warned, revenues and for elimination of boot- repeal may both go a-glimm:ring as s for big 1g under Journal of Commerce.) ttle o — John Shell died a while back in his cabin up T ¢ o in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee. Con- GEORGE M. SIMPKI RETIRES. siderable publicity resulted, due to the fact that The retirement of George M. Simpkins from the the old man claimed he had attained the age of United States Customs Service in Juneau, after thirty years in office, became effective New Year's eve with the departure of the Princess Norah for Skagway. Thirty ars service in any ol zation government or private enterprise, deserves comment And when the tenure of office has been marked w a faithfulness of service ~such as Mr. Simpkins, favorable comment is happily given Mr. Simpkins has made close and firm friends among the officers of the Canadian ships it has many summers | been his duty to inspect, and among passengers he|'S interesting. From all others l.L is of little con has met in the course of his duties. A habit of thirty | duence. The old man lived in obscurity in a years standing is hard to break, and The Empire is AN Ve W g pu‘lh 70 SHR! realikin f" f his childhood life was his habit throughout hi betting that, though he is no longer required to do| . ©o " REL B0 PO S e country be. it, George Simpkins will keep on meeting Canadian|. ... s v, while the world was mwruman &l hips when they come to port to greet his old|;g pjs lifetime, far faster than it had in the last | lends aboard them, and to continue making| wo thousand years, John Shell eked out an exist- | JcW ones. . nee in his lonely mountain home. He saw few | _— people, probably thought few thoughts, and in ob- THE TAMING OF BILBO. scurity finally died. Life may have bored him but his mind was probably not active enough to cx- Senator-elect Bilbo of Mississippi, who threat- |perience boredom. | ened to more hell than Huey” when he arrived | Most normal men of forty have, in ¢ in Washington, is mystifying the capital where he|'Onger, seen more and been of greate b arrived in advance of the opening of Congress to|-¢ world than ,”"' l"‘%““mh B, ; Yw_“"c demeanor gives no indication that he will make good [ CHEC R R PO Erionne my"mnw his threat. Bilbo seems to speak in a mONStrous|y.n’giq old John Snell, drowsing through the little voice, and promises, when he gets on the monotoncus years—through the suns of summer and Senate floor, to do his roaring gently he snows of winter—in his hide-away on the Bluc | An explanation offered is that the ranting, if e while a busy world passed him by. | | not roaring, small man from Huey's neighbc Siate has been jeken -under the broadly protectine wing of Senator Pat Harrison: of Mississippi, who an old head at Washington and knows what's what in politics, as well as those things that are meet for the expansive general welfare. Another thought is that Bilbo has behaved in the manner in which Senator Dill says, in his recent article in the Saturday Evening Post, is the habit of recalcitrant solons when they get to Wash- ington. Refractory as they may be ahead of time, when they arrive in the capital they usually bow to the subduing effect of its traditions. The wild be- came tame, forget their threats to rant and roar nd act as has been customary for other Senators n the beginning of Congress. Except, of course Long Repeal’s Weak Side. (New York World-Telegram.) That, after a year of repeal, consumption of alcoholic beverages is more temperate, orderly, social and free of saloon and speakeasy evils than it was under Prohibition or before Prohibition, we think the average citizen needs only his own observation to convince him. To that extent he will agree with Chairman Mulrooney and Mrs. John S. Sheppard, of the State Liquor Control Board, and with many nation-wide observers. Moreover, this special but satisfactory verdict can, so far as it goes, be based on total consumption, regardless of how much liquor is legal and how much bootleg. But from the point of view of revenue there can be no such disregard and no such pleasant con- clusion. This side of the matter is in Yhe highest degree serious and disquieting. I : years. Physicians were interested and held a post-mortem. They agreed that Mr. Shell had un- doubtedly lived a half-century beyond the “three | core and ten” allotted to humans. They unani- nously disagreed, however, with the contention of 1eighb the old even-) boy. “It is simply not being dono‘ hese days” was their verdict regarding his alleged | atherhood. | From a biolog viewpoint Shell's accomplis nent in weathering sc and winters Newspape Ty says 0 understand how a k “naturalists are at a loss| 13ar00 skeleton could have | seen found in Africa We're not good at solving | hard ones like that, either, but our guess would be | hat a kangaroo msut have passed on, as they say, | somewhere in that neighborhood. The Bartenders' Alliance of Washington, D. C., is for openness and honesty and therefore calls for abolition of the district law which forbids the mixing of drinks in public. are mxed, it is said, so why keep the bartender ridden while it is going on? As pure logic, such argument is irrefulable. But it’s poor business judg- nent, as the open performance might hurt the rade by letting the customers know too much about their goods. was at the laying of a corner stone. Mr. Cool- idge turned the customary spadeful of loam and then stood silent while the gathering waited for him to speak. When he said nothing the master of ceremonies asked him if he would favor with a few words. Mr. Coolidge looked at the spadeful of >arth he had just turned over and said, “That's a fine fish worm.” Whereupon he turned and walkec to his waiting car.—(Worcester Telegram.) T There's one thing about women'’s millinery. Their hats are not yet big enough to talk through.—(At-’ lanta Constitution.) Yes, ~cmbh a vulcanizing oys and girls kissed back in 1890; but it chicken picking up corn, instead of (Los Angeles Times.) Everybody knows that drinks | The Fashion Art League of Am- | erica dec) girl” new frocl declared, and have a high stock collar. | Mr. & on the where th ifornia. charge of the transportation de-| partment of the Alaskn Gastineau. Miss Mina Sowerby and Miss | Catherine Maloney. teachers in the | | Jones-Stevens Shop 8kejway hool, returned’ to the| o " Lynn Gaual City after sponding the| | MADIESCT-CRILDRENS holidays Juneau and Thane. bty Frank man was the father of a Jl} United States Marshal at Doug- | Dr. F ¥ A in gener nounced fices in the Cobb Building ior practice would | The Ladies Church a R. G. Wi o was a thing of the past. The reed that the “shortwaist- | JUNEAU Drug Co. “THE CORNER DRUG STORE" P. O. Substation No. 1 k for summer, the league | must be all in one piece d Mrs. Thomas Dunn left Mariposa for the States, cy expect to locate in Cal- ‘ M Dunn had been in| FREE DELIVERY | Seward Street Near Third Bach was appoiated dep- | B. Whiting, “Tomorrow’s Styles well-known 2 phvsician, who had been Today practice in Seattle, an- t he had open-1 of- the | sur; which he ecialize. ry in Guild of St. Luke's t Treadwell met with Mrs. ayland Sheldon and J. H. Cann, “Juneau’s Own Store” z 5 | PROFESSIQNAL || I | I I I Helem- W.L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 — WHY | Not Because We Are I Cheaper 18 BUT BETTER Rose A. Anfi;awa Second and Main | | I | 1 Graduate Nurse | Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- | sage, Colonic Irrigations | | Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by Appointment Fhone 259 1 RICE & AHLERS CO. r " UMBING HEATING ‘} “We tell you in advance what &/ job will cost” \ 'GET OUT OF MY 0 LiFe FOREVBR !} G 1 DRS. KASER & FREFBURGER 1 F. B. WILSON [ Chircpodis—Foot Specialist 401 Goldstein Building | | PHONE 496 DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 il Bours 9 am. to 9 pm. Banished forever are the | clothes basket, N Y T SO i R Dr. C. P. Jenne DENTIST Rocms 8 and 9 Valentine | ‘ Building | Telepnone 178 { - T ' | | Dr. Geo. L. Barton !j { | | ! 201 Goldstein Bldg. Phone 214 Office hours—9-12, 1-5. Even- CHIROPRACTOR ings by appointment d and laundry tubs. And she’s a gayer, joilier companion for her husband now that she sends her clothes to the laundry. | i | wash line, | f——— | i Dr. Richard Williame DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building Phone 481 OF , | Gastineau Channel | —_— B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 Pp.m. Visiting brothers welcome. Fraternal Societies John H. Walmer, Ex- | alted Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS “reghers Council No. 4 760. Meetings second nd last Monday at :20 p. m. Transient le srothers urged to at-\ tend. Council Cham- sers, Fifth St. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K, H. J. TURNER, Secretary. MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in Scctéish Rite Temple, beginning at' 7:30 p.m. L. E. HENDRICKSON R Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE N7 F. 0. E. g% <Y e | teets first and third Mondays 8 .m., Eagles’ Hall, Doughs Visiting orothers welcome. Sante Degan, | W. P, T. W. Cashen, Secretary, : — || time, | Our tru.“s go any place any | A tank for Diesei Oi} | | and a tank for crude oil save | burner trouble. PHONE 143; AT 148 REL! ABLE TRANSFER ommercial Adjust- ment & Rating Burean | Cooperating with White Serv- 1dg. V/e have 5,000 local ratings | on file YOUR uuuuumm|||||m|um|||m|uumu|||||mu|||||m||||mnmu||||||uum|||m||m||||||||u||m|||||||m|m||||mul HEADQUARTERS FOR ¥ from all parts of the city L;gdla and representing many or- Ciga,e“c. ganizations have already en- = tered this first series. | Landy < L Brunswick . The New Arctic *JIMMY™ CARLSON in business in Juneau, dissolved g o / ' partnership, Cann continuing the | | T [ ‘4LASKA H business of the Alaska Furniture | LUDW;éstE,_[}};LSON ; { Company. 11 Watch Repairing | Laundry | Weather: Maximum, 37; mini-| | Fhilec—General Electric Agency | ‘ [ : s > FRONT STREET | L mum, 34; cloudy, rain. b —) R i G g I et i e Old papers for sale here. "Tue JunEau LAUNDRY | | Fo—— 5 = e : e Franklin Street between | The Florence Shoj 71| Front and Second Streets ‘ | | Permanent Waving a Specialty WARRACK gl | Florence Holmquist, Prop. | PHONE 35¢ 1] PHONE 427 Construction co‘ | ALY — | Behrends Bank Building | Juneau .! CONTESTS Why not organize a team among your friends, and | get in on the fun? Teams Alleys Rheinlander Beer on Draught POOL BILLIARDS BARBER SHOP JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE | “Exclusive but not Expensive” Coats, Dresses, Lingerie, Hoslery and Hats Pabst Famous Draught Beer On Tap JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 P F TYPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per month | J. B. Burford & Co. “Our doorstep is worn by satis- fied customers )| o 2 | [ Juneau Ice Cream Parlors [ | SHORT ORDERS | | Fountain Candy || ek s e o BETTY MAC [ BEAUTY SHOP 103 Assembly Apartments | PHONE 547 1 - | SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings i for Men DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Classes Fitted Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence Phone. 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Room ELEVATOR SERVICE HONE 36 or very prompt L1Q JQUOR DELIVERY — ( Juneau-Young ; gflflllllfllllll“lllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIlIIIIIIIlIIilIIIIIIIlIIIIllllllllllll!lllllllllIllllllllllll|||ll|ll|! i K | Hardware Co. IR e > TN FORD | AGENCY | qualified the B. M. sound banking. | you ta He R g you take advantage GREASES GAS ‘ ° OILS { 1 The B. M. Juneau Motors | JUNEAU, 8. ZYNDA, Prop. ! = EXPERIENCE Nearly half a century’s accumlated ex- perience and conservative progress have offer its services to the people of Juneau and Alaska in all matters pertaining to We are glad to have | all your banking problems. | { Bank Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. tc 8 pm. | SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 409, Res. Phone 276§ ELECTRICAL Wiring Servicing and | Repair Work [ ] PHONE Mize 3804 THE BEST TAP BEER IN TOWN! ® THE MINERS’ Recreation Parlors and Liquor Store BILL DOUGLAS Behrends Bank to of our facilities in GARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 Phone 4753 GENERAL MOTORS and | MAYTAG PRODUCTS ‘ W. P. JOHNSON Behrends = =2 i | H.S GRAVES | “The Clothing Man Marx Clothing i |1 o— | | -y ‘THollywoodrgtyle Sho i I Robert Glmpson Opt. D Graduate Los Angelas Col- ‘ege of Optometry and Opthalinology Gl&ue‘ Titted, Lenses Groun | | | | ice Bureau | Ro>n 1—Shattuck B} , | | 41 | | | d I DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination Free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to 8:30 and by appointment. Office Grand Apts., near Gas- tineau Hotel. Phone 177 il Alaska Transfer Co. GENERAL HAULING ED JEWELL, Preprietor PHONES 269—1134 cu SEE BIG VAN | Guns and Ammunition LOWER FRONT STREET Next to Midget Lunch -t | Drucs AND Sunpries or LIQUORS IN A HURRY! PHONE 97 Fast Free Delivery Guy L. Smith Drug Siore l‘exllncolheum v Formerly COLEMAN’S Pay Less—Much {,esa I Front at Main' Stree BEULAH HICKEY For Quick RADIO REPAIR Telephone HENRY PIGG 3 ’ Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST | TRooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by appointmcnt PHONE 321 | | | | Harry Race DRUGGIST The Squibb Store —————d IDEAL PAINT SHOP | If It's Paint We Have It! = | WENDT & GARSTER PHONE 549 » i OMu'mm-rmwgum Empire Office.